The one biblical book suspiciously missing from this massive corpus of scriptural manuscripts—or is it?

And the man who had Judah’s first governor assassinated

A shipwreck discovery off Israel’s coast reveals an ancient connection with Cyprus and Sardinia.

It’s a peculiar ‘love fest’ numbered among the ‘Christian’ holidays. But its real origin is much earlier than the third-century ‘St. Valentine.’

Archaeology in Jerusalem is often unfairly demonized by agenda-driven journalists as the work of ‘Zionists’ in opposition to Palestinians. This could not be further from the truth—as the Mazar excavations in particular attest.

Archaeologists uncover a ritual table stone, with peculiar parallels to the biblical account of the lost ark.

Gold tongues for the Egyptian afterlife—and the ‘sin of Achan’

Biblical clues into the fate of early Crete

Roman- and Mamluk-era shipwrecks yield fascinating finds.

And other peculiarities about this unusual king of ‘abominations’

A special coin (produced at the temple itself?) found by a young sifting project volunteer

A peculiar antediluvian individual we unwittingly reference in everyday language

Sometimes the problem with looking for something is that we can’t see the forest for the trees.

Spoiler alert: It’s just as the Bible describes (although you might have missed it).

A destroyed Seleucid fortress near the Lachish forest—courtesy the Hasmonean revolt

A once-in-a-lifetime discovery of a pendant thought to belong to a relative of King Richard III

Beneath a peculiar English translation lies a scripture far more brutal (and a warning to the stubborn).